Last Knight: Rogue Rider Edition

It is that special time of the year, you know that time with the eggs and the bunnies. This of course means you have to eat all the bunnies you can find and something something eggs. Or maybe it was jousting all the bunnies and eat all the eggs till you explode. Either way, important is to find some bunny mask so you can ride with style for this festive occasion.

Here is the introduction to the Easter event:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoKCSQGDKY

In this Easter event masks and hats are much easier to find, just look out for some giant Knight Suprise TM eggs.

It is Christmas event time! Time to joust some snowmen and throw giant snowballs at your foes and don't forget if you find Santa better dodge because he might explode. Also, you need to eat lots of turkey so you don't starve but beware you can also explode from too much! If this sounds crazy to you then you might never played the Last Knight X-mas modes, they are now unlocked for everyone plus you can find lots of presents, often with Wooly hats inside to protect you from the cold.

Here is a little run down on the Big X-mas Chow Down mode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qW9708f8U0

In case you do not even own the game yet, this is your best chance to join the fun since it is currently dead cheap, Merry Christmas! http://store.steampowered.com/app/262210

I recently participated in the Ludum Dare game jam (yet again). This time the theme was One Room and out of came Rubi's Room which is a twist on the Rubik's Cube. But here you have to match the split objects, sitting on the room tiles, back together which is much easier then solving Rubik's Cube yet still very tricky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzqw97VFm6EYou can play the Ludum Dare version here: https://tocogames.itch.io/rubis-room

I'm currently working more on it and among other things there will be also VR:Merry Christmas and a happy new year,David HagemannToco Games@TocoGamesCom

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Halloween Event and More

24 Eki 2016

Halloween

The Halloween event is now live! In it you will see enemies like the bucket heads and skeletons dressed up for Halloween with randomly generated pumpkin heads. There will be also other riders dressed up appropriately and you can find of course lots of those randomly generated pumpkins for yourself. Because when you get wasted you better get wasted dressed up nice for Halloween! Don't forget, don't be afraid of no ghosts, they will roam the kingdom but they can't harm you. For once something that won't kill you!

Halloween Stuff

If you like to have some real pumpkins as in 3D printed pumpkins check out these: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:262254As you might notice they share some resemblance with those in Last Knight which isn't a coincidence, they are much more low poly as they are in the game though. There is of course also the Skeleton of Last Knight changed to work as a moving 3d printed skeleton: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:644370

The Get Up Game

Relative recently I participated in the Ludum Dare game jam and made this little endless arcade god physics game you can download for free:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSuE_-bCZgYou are basically a Egyptian god and there are slaves you can pick up which then can push stones on wood logs rolling up the hill so that somewhere up there they can be used to build the biggest pyramid ever. Make no mistake this is pretty hard, because physics. It is also fully playable with the Vive. Download here: http://gamejolt.com/games/the-get-up/189692

Rogue Rider Mode Guide

In case you still need to get all 7 wonders of the world which is quite a huge undertaking you now have some help from Corsario through this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=763376930Don't expect any wonders though, while this guide goes through everything you need to know the game mode becomes not any less brutal.

Last Knight Stuff in VR

I recently update all my Sketchfab models to work with WebVR. In VR you can really take in how huge those Wonders of the World are: Some screenshots of the others: There is also this Rogue Rider Map like scene:Here are my models you can check out: https://sketchfab.com/TocoGamescom/modelsThis works with all kinds of VR, here is the info how: https://sketchfab.com/virtual-realityWith the Vive you can scale yourself by using touchpad diagonal left down and right down.

Don't have any VR? So sad, do enter Virtual Reality soon, I swear it is really comfy here and everything is so shiny! The biggest plus is that in this reality you can respawn when you die and that without any karma, hell or god involved! More importantly If you don't get VR you might not be able to play my next game, very sad.

Happy Halloween,David HagemannToco Games@TocoGamesCom

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Sketchfab Last Knight Models

10 Nis 2016

Steam now supports Sketchfab which is a good reason to show off all the Last Knight models I put up there over the time:

The stylized (stylized even more) castle and some landscape you see in the Rogue Rider 3D world map:https://sketchfab.com/models/858dedb5283e4d209abe76a6d904fb83

A bucket smashed to a Smashtastic, you know when you ram a lance real hard in the center of a horned bucket:https://sketchfab.com/models/2bb18e8e990841cd872592b185dce3e9

This is the package of the official Last Knight cereals. Unfortunately they never came to be, maybe because they are not made exactly for the taste of humans.https://sketchfab.com/models/6ed1f37731ca4269a78f03c075b5cb57

The high poly knight and horse riding on and on and on and on and...https://sketchfab.com/models/4de5daefe8d145fbb8ad168718093636

A whole low poly stylized Last Knight world. As you can see the world is not completely flat. It is also the same setup you see in the intro trailer, when you set it to first person you can fly through it yourself.https://sketchfab.com/models/4629b972551c4faf89e6dead5f5fe705

Here are all the 7 wonders of the world. You probably have not found them all in game yet because the Rogue Rider mode is darn hard. In case you don't want to get spoiled here better look away quickly.https://sketchfab.com/models/85ceee65a0464fec9e9a4452649eaeb8https://sketchfab.com/models/ed323dff0fc84b6abfc2dead2fa0b753https://sketchfab.com/models/b9a0f7bed7e447a98af9cf1614dfe213https://sketchfab.com/models/306e8e7026db4016b9482dea69517776https://sketchfab.com/models/5abafb9f13b044b3ba610a6923a60fb5

Looks like this Steam Sketchfab support is limited so there a now only 5 wonders of the world or you click these 2 links:https://sketchfab.com/models/2812fdb145f7465e80ffbae26889293d

https://sketchfab.com/models/1835dff333104f6a853b7b678a09b64e

Furthermore there is a interview I gave some time ago to Sketchfab: https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchtalk-toco-games/

The update I uploaded yesterday ends the Easter Event and fixes mushrooms disappearing. It hopefully also fixes a rare issue with loading story levels.

Sad that you can't eat any Last Knight cereals? Well, you can atleast 3D print some Last Knight merchandise yourself! For free! (3D printer required)- The Knight helmet: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:750091- The Skeleton: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:644370- A bunny head: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:633685(Eating them not recommended. Except if you have a food 3D printer.)

Easter is almost upon on us this means it is time to grab your bunny mask and joust some evil Easter bunnies or anything that could be one! Of course you also need to shove a lot of eggs turn your throat til you explode. Wait, no, just enough so you don't starve.

Here is the introduction to the Easter event:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoKCSQGDKY

In case you have not found a Bunny mask yet you better get going and find one. Luckily in this Easter event they are much easier to find, just look out for some giant Knight Suprise TM eggs.

Here is a small sample of the randomly generated bunny masks:If you now want one for your Easter decoration or just to paint something more exciting then a odd distorted spherical thingy you can print this bunny head with your 3d printer: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:633685 No 3d printer? Don't worry, in a couple of years everyone has one.

While the Easter event is going on you can also search for eggs in the menus which change things in various ways. Just click on them to crack them open and again to deactivate them.

This update has a couple of changes requested in the forum:

- Easter event- AZERTY french keyboard layout support- Right Thumbstick press is now a 3rd person camera cycle button (With a keyboard you can now cycle through with pressing K)- Fixed Water Buckets and Lava Buckets being swapped in the stats screen

It is that christmassy time of the year again, as you might know in order to properly celebrate you need to eat lots of turkey and candy while not exploding and also smash lots of snowmen to snowy bits.

Everyone can do that starting now in Last Knight, both the Big X-mas Chow Down mode and the Big X-mas Mow Down mode are unlocked for everyone and that also includes everyone who don't even own the game! Just download the special X-Mas demo on the store page:http://store.steampowered.com/app/262210

Here is a little run down on the Big X-mas Chow Down mode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qW9708f8U0You will also find lots more presents with randomly generated hat inside in the Endless modes while the X-mas event lasts!

Wonders of the World:

I know most of you never made it to a Wonder of the World in the Rogue Rider Adventure mode because it is a darn brutal world and they are very hard to find and reach. To those of you who got one or even all 7: Congratulations!Everyone can now check out all the wonders in their 3 dimensional glory on Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/TocoGamescom/folders/wonders-of-the-world

Free game Forklift Man:

I participated in the recent Ludum Dare game jam and created Forklift Man. Forklift Man is a video game hero unlike any other, his superpower is that he can grow his limbs rapidly at will. In this small game his power must be put in good use among various challenges and puzzles.Do you have what it takes to be Forklift Man? Will you use your superpower responsible? Find out now, it is up here for grabs:http://tocogames.itch.io/forklift-man

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Halloween Event and some Making Of

28 Eyl 2015

It is Halloween! Already, in Last Knight! In this little Halloween event you will be able to find lots of Pumpkin hats in the Endless modes. The horned bucket heads, skeletons and other rider will wear various pumpkins as well. If you happen to encounter ghosts, don't worry they are just common encounters at Halloween and are pretty harmless. Some of them are likely your dead previous selfs since you likely got wasted a lot since you first set a horse foot in this world.

The update also includes a small fix for a really rare case were some of the levels would not generate properly on start sometimes and the player gets stuck.

Some Making Of

It has been some time since the game released and I'm currently busy with making 2 new games but lets take a minute to reminisce with some bits of the development (hell):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O54Crl08OgcNote: Most of these bits show more or less unintended results which are often of a amusing nature.

Here is something of more substance in terms of making of. This shows how I sculpted most of environment assets as very high resolution Zbrush sculpts which are then baked to models with much lower poly counts.The grass for instance is actually modeled in various variations and then baked to planes.

Here is the bat as a Zbrush sculpt and as the final model in the engine: A lot of the characters had been mostly modeled as high poly meshes instead of sculpted which works best for clear defined shapes like the knight's armor: Here you can see the low poly version. The goal was always to make it as low as possible while remaining most of the silhouette. A lot of the high poly detail and smoothness takes over to the low poly through a baked normal map texture. It basically fakes the low poly model to look like a high poly model. This technique is still a standard in current games. While polygon counts keep rising it won't go away anytime soon. For the skeleton I did something special in terms of animation. I used motion capture to record my movements using the Kinect. It was a bit tricky to get working: But later I got it working and with a few tweaks I got this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Qaq_8M_oo

So the next time you behead a skeleton keep in mind that really it is a projection of me! (I have more fingers though.) I also motion captured all the other creatures. No just kidding, it was the skeleton exclusively, doing any anything different then humanoid motion capture is rather tricky.

Btw, if you are already living in the future like me and still need something to 3d print for your Halloween decoration check out this Skeleton version that snaps together and can move: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:644370

May you have a smashtastic experience, David Hagemann Toco Games @TocoGamescom - http://www.lastknightthegame.com

P.S.Here is a little something of one of my next projects which is a first person painter: For more development hell you can follow me on twitter: @TocoGamescomOr check out my free game jam games: Where Is My Hammer: http://tocogames.itch.io/where-is-my-hammer-destroy-everythingShootmephrenia: http://tocogames.itch.io/shootmephrenia

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Update #10 - v2.0 - Easter Event

31 Mar 2015

It is that time of the year where lunatics with bunny masks roam the kingdom and joust each other to death for the fun of it. So grab a bunny mask and join the action!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoKCSQGDKYIn this Easter event you will find lots of bunny masks and eggs in lots of variations. That also includes game manipulating hidden eggs that you can find in the menus, just click on them to activate them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxHJTknzMUThis update also marks the 2.0 version number! I guess that means it is complete x 2.New are animations for the other rider, they will now cheer when they dodged a obstacle successfully and react to you sometimes. It makes it all the more fun to watch when they die just while they happily throw their arms in the air or when they look back and then run right into a obstacle.Changed are the extra cameras which are now all located on the number keys, when you press a number multiple times you get to additional cameras as A-D. Camera 1A is the default camera. When you press 0 you get cinematic randomly changing cameras.For first person the FOV can now be changed with the number keys, 1-9 with 0 resetting it to the default FOV.

In the past couple of months I got into 3d printing and I had to print Last Knight models as well. For the skeleton I went the extra length and made it so that his bones snap together and his body can then move:More: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:644370

I also printed several versions of the knight helmet with the version that is printed in parts being the newest. It can then easily be assembled:Unfortunately I had no blue nor silver filament but it looks also pretty cool in black in white. It might be the noble white and black knight who fights for tolerance and equal rights.More: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:750091

If that got you interested in 3d printing you will find lots more of my designs here, which includes a Professor Farnsworth, a fruit tree, the whole world, a Invader Zim action figure and of course a bunny: http://www.thingiverse.com/Davision3d/designs

I'm not starting any merchandise for Last Knight here but I have also uploaded the skeleton skull as a keychain for purchase on Shapeways which can even be printed in 14k gold if that should be your thing: https://www.shapeways.com/product/J26S9SQYC/skull-keychain?key=64afba31665af379a03782bb3a206b3b

The update also includes some tweaks and fixes. Here is the change notes list:

İlk olarak notes tarafından gönderildi:

- Added Easter Event- Added other rider animations- Changed extra cameras to be all on number keys- Changed first person fov to be on number keys- Changed 0 key to be randomly switching between extra cameras- Changed x-mas modes to require unlock again- Tweaked some menu things- Fixed gamepad x button- Fixed suprise surprise mode mutators staying active after run- Fixed exit game animation still having menu controls- Fixed medals for different campaigns not updating instantly- Fixed lance aimring ray setting not saving- Fixed a issue with the music system

I could not resist making yet another mode for X-mas. I just took the original Big X-Mas Chow Down mode and replaced "Ch" of the Chow with a "M" as a result the Big X-Mas Mow Down mode was born.

Well, it wasn't quite that easy. That new mode doesn't feature any of the extreme turkey munching nor the candy canes crunching. Instead there are lots of other rider on the winter wonderland roads. They are trying to deliver presents all over the kingdom. But as you might guessed in this kingdom nothing really ever gets delivered for rather obvious reasons. So don't feel bad about ramming them and snatching their presents! Most include giant snowballs that you can then throw at the next rider. Why are there snowballs in the presents? Because some people must have realized that their presents won't get anywhere anyway so they filled them with cheap snow instead.But you can also find power ups, hats and some magic mutation for yourself and horse in those presents. You also still have to mow down those randomly generated snowmen of course as well as the horned bucket heads but those giant snow balls make it all a good bit easier.

If you never played the Big X-mas Chow Down mode before you can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qW9708f8U0

Here we go with update #9 which marks version 1.9!You probably wondered by now why Halloween never seems to end in Last Knight. Wonder no more! It is now Christmas and Santa made your deepest wish come true. What wish that is? To put all those competitor rider to waste.

Competitor Rider

Well, not all of them, some get wasted in the brand new taverns while some others are still out there roaming the kingdom and getting wasted. But they finally respect you now and will not try to get into your way anymore even if that means their painful death. You could say they respect you more then their own live.

Those other rider also represent now all those houses in the game. Like the house of the dancing fox, of the mad unicorn, of the roasted turkeys etc. They wear the flag of their house proudly (till they die around the next corner) and there are also rogue rider that represent their own generated family (and their rather short legacy). When you crafted the castle yet you will see also rider of your own house but you can just ram them in the side anyways, because it is just too tempting to not do!

Tavern

(Nobody is under the influence of alcohol here)

The addition of the tavern acts as the go to place to hear all the drivel. There you can listen to the tales of the wonders of the world. But luckily you don't have to sit through all that boring slipslop and only get the important bits which is in which direction a particular wonder is located. There is a side-effect to the addition of the tavern though, other riders have been seen riding dizzy on their horses while others are simple sleeping while riding and some have even forgot to put on their armors! That can not end well. (As if it ever would)Note: There is 0% alcohol included in this game. Non, zero, nada! It is all just apple juice in those barrels. Oh, those randomly generated other rider now also wear randomly generated hats sometimes.

Traders with faces

You probably also wondered why you could only see the dark silhouette of the traders. Fear not, they are not some dark evil demons that hide in the shadows! They are human beings just like you and me, well, for a big part.

Here is the charming diamonds trader brought to light:Wait, something went not quite right there, lets try again:No, that was a wrong parameter, lets roll with this, here they are all right:Isn't it a dream team? Well, one is getting out of line but that has to do. He just got too much magic in him!

The traders are not shy to comment on the hats you wear. You better take their fashion tips seriously because the right hat can help immensely with trying to survive, because magic!

Extra cameras

The extra alternative cameras have been tweaked quite a lot and you can now choose favorites with the number keys from 0-9. There are default favorites which are basically my favorites but you can make them your own by choosing a camera with the mousewheel or in case of the gamepad with the d-pad up and down buttons. To then save a selected camera on a number simply press left control + the number key you want to save it on. You can then also automatically randomize between the favorites by choosing camera 0. (If you have problems with your mousewheel or d-pad you can also lock camera switching by pressing numpad 5) Don't forget, in first person you can instead zoom in and out.

Some Free Games

I participated in 3 game jams recently and out of it came 3 little games you can download:

"Where Is My Hammer" Everything can be smashed to pieces and there is a hammer. Created for the Indies VS PewDiePie game jam.

"Shotmephrenia" A FPS in which you have to shoot no one but yourself! Make perfect trickshots, figure out how to reflect the bullet over multiple panels and run and jump to catch your bullet! Created for the 7DFPS game jam.

"Nowhere" A very small but deeep artgame that messes with your head. Created for the Ludum Dare 31 gam jam.

Here is the whole collection: http://itch.io/c/2912/creative-destructive

May you have a smashtastic experience and merry x-mas,David HagemannToco Games @TocoGamescom - http://www.lastknightthegame.com

P.S.The hat drop rate in the Endless modes is now pretty high because it is x-mas time! Want to play the Big X-Mas Chow Down mode but don't have a wooly hat yet? Here you go: http://www.tocogames.com/files/WoolyHat-Knight.zip